Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today I'm joined by Jamie Weill.

Jamie is a best-selling author, speaker, and researcher, specializing in the intersection of neuroscience,

cultural history, and human performance. As the executive director of the Flow Genome Project,

he has worked with organizations ranging from Google to Red Bull to the U.S. Special Operations Command,

helping leaders in teams harness peak states of consciousness for creativity, healing, and connection.

His book's Stealing Fire, co-authored with Stephen Codler, and Recapture the Rapture,

explore how altered states, ancient wisdom, and modern

science can help individuals and societies navigate meaning, resilience, and flourishing in

turbulent times. As you'll hear in this episode, we get into deep cultural, spiritual,

and political topics, including, and don't tune out, how Trump rallies

actually provide a strong sense of community that the left has not found a way to replicate.

We discuss the strange intersection between Christian Nationalists Project 2025ers and

technocrat billionaires. We talk about how the right is better at messaging than the

left. But don't worry, we don't talk politics the entire time. We cover a lot of human history

from early human sun worship to how losing our sense of awe at mother nature leads us to

disrespect our natural resources.

This conversation was originally held live on Substack.

For more interesting live conversations, musings, and ad-free episodes, head over to

jeffcrasno.substack.com.

Okay, without further delay, here's my conversation with Jamie Weill.

All right, Jamie Weill.

How you doing, buddy? Doing great.

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